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Bulgarian President Radev: Handling of jet fighter acquisition process ‘not the best signal’ abroad

July 21, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has cited the handling of the fighter jet acquisition process as an example of how not

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Defence Chief: No external interference in choosing new fighter jet

July 17, 2017July 19, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Bulgaria’s Defence Chief General Andrei Botsev has rejected allegations of external interference and corruption in the process towards choosing a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s President Radev accuses government of procrastinating about fighter jet acquisition

July 10, 2017July 11, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

The prolonged political tussle in Bulgaria about the fighter jet acquisition process continued on July 10 with President Roumen Radev

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: Sole requirement in jet fighter acquisition is that they should be new

July 7, 2017July 10, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on July 7 that his sole requirement in the process of acquiring jet fighters

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Bulgaria 

Dossier Commission names two of President Radev’s staff as former State Security people

July 6, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law with exposing people in public life who worked for the country’s communist-era

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev: Former defence minister Nenchev ‘crashed’ in MiG-29 overhaul deal

July 4, 2017July 5, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Bulgaria’s President and former Air Force commander Roumen Radev said on July 4 that former defence minister Nikolai Nenchev had

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov and President Radev in show of unity on military modernisation, anti-corruption and foreign policy

July 3, 2017July 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

Against a background of recent tensions between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party and President Roumen Radev, the heads

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Bulgaria 

Saab: Bulgarian former defence minister’s claims about Gripen ceasing production and being in scant demand are misleading and factually wrong

June 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Claims by Bulgarian former defence minister Boiko Noev in a June 28 television interview, including that there was scant demand

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Bulgaria 

Radev, Iohannis to seek closer ties as Bulgaria and Romania prepare to host EU presidency

June 28, 2017June 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Romania, Roumen Radev

Less than a week after visiting Greece, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev’s diplomatic forays took him to the country’s other European

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